Frits Zernike
Dutch physicist
Died when: 77 years 237 days (931 months)Star Sign: Cancer
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Frits Zernike (Dutch pronunciation: ['fr?t's?rnik?]; 16 July 1888 – 10 March 1966) was a Dutch physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1953 for his invention of the phase-contrast microscope.
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